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Cardiovascular and renal effects of chronic Hg exposure are increasingly documented, complementing neurotoxicological evidence that remains most firmly established at high-level exposures, such as Minamata disease and occupational poisoning, whereas associations reported at typical environmental exposure levels are largely statistical rather than indicative of overt clinical neurotoxicity. A recurring pattern across the reviewed literature is that biomarker concentrations and temporal trends differ markedly between high-income and low- and middle-income countries, with declining exposure and denser monitoring coverage in the former contrasting with persistently elevated levels and sparse surveillance data in the latter, a gap directly relevant to evaluating the effectiveness of the Minamata Convention under its Article 22. 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